Wang Jingui remained on guard. He said, "If I can't return to Beijing, no one will be able to get the evidence."
"Who wants your evidence?" Yu Xiangyang suppressed his impatience. "What kind of evidence? Tell us everything you can, so we can help you, right?"
Wang Jingui stared at Yu Xiangyang intently, as if trying to determine whether Yu Xiangyang and his men were sent by the other party to deceive him.
At this moment, Yu Xiangyang suddenly gave an order, "Put out the fire, there are people there."
The soldiers put out the fire completely in less than a minute.
As the soldiers were putting out the fire, Yu Xiangyang said, "We can't stay in the cave. We'll be easily exposed. Let's go outside and find a place to hide."
The soldiers each carried their belongings and crouched down as they walked out of the cave. Yu Xiangyang grabbed Wang Jingui and asked, "Do you want to be found here?"
Yu Xiangyang brought five people out, and now there are seven people in total including Wang Jingui.
Two comrades quietly climbed up the tree, which was both concealed and convenient for observing the situation.
Yu Xiangyang and others hid in a dark corner where the moonlight could not reach and there was a rock outside blocking their view.
No one dared to make a sound, and even their breathing was very low.
After a while, several men's voices were heard.
A man complained, "Boss, where can we find it in such a huge mountain?"
The other man said in a rather rough voice, "That's how we find it! The boss said we must find the person alive or the body dead."
Another male voice, a bit shrill, said, "Boss, look! There's a cave over there!"
"Go in and take a look!"
Yu Xiangyang carefully identified the footsteps and estimated that there were seven or eight people.
It shouldn't be difficult to subdue so many people, but the question is, what should be done with these people after they are subdued?
It is impossible to carry out the mission with these people, and there is no time to send them down the mountain to the Public Security Bureau. The most important thing is that they cannot be exposed to avoid alerting the enemy.
After some thought, Yu Xiangyang decided to just hide.
Five minutes later, I heard that rough voice again, "The fire's still hot, the guy hasn't gotten far, let's keep chasing him!"
The sound of chaotic running faded away, and the two soldiers who had climbed the tree had already come down.
"Yu Tuan, there are eight of them, all men."
Yu Xiangyang asked Wang Jingui, "Are they here to arrest you?"
Wang Jingui nodded.
Yu Xiangyang said, "They went in that direction. I'll arrange for two people to take you down the mountain to the Public Security Bureau. The police will help you get justice."
"I won't go!" Wang Jingui said. "They have people in the Public Security Bureau. If I go, I'll just be walking into a trap."
Yu Xiangyang said, "Either you tell me exactly what's going on so I can figure out how to help you. Or I'll just send you off. We have our own things to do and can't waste time with you like this."
Wang Jingui pondered for two minutes. "In March of this year, a coal mine collapsed here, burying an estimated 30 people. But the story never came to light. My classmate works at a Jincheng newspaper. He wanted to report the incident, but was silenced. He was also threatened and retaliated against, and his evidence was forcibly taken away. He probably had a premonition that something bad was going to happen, so he wrote me a letter telling me about it."
"I rushed here immediately after receiving the letter, but my classmate had disappeared. I pretended to be unemployed and worked in the coal mines for six months, finally gathering some evidence. But they found me not long ago, and I had to flee overnight. They still found me, beat me, and threatened me, demanding the evidence I had."
"Luckily, I hid the evidence so well that no one could find it except me," Wang Jingui said. "When their hard tactics didn't work, they tried bribery, trying to bribe me. I pretended to surrender and took the opportunity to escape. The wounds on my body are from the stabbings I received when I escaped."
Yu Xiangyang and his comrades found it unbelievable. How could over 30 lives be left unresolved?!
"Is this true?" asked a comrade.
Wang Jingui said: "These people are very powerful in the local area. They have connections from the underworld to the government. It is impossible to report them here. So I want to return to Beijing and expose their crimes to the public."
Yu Xiangyang was still skeptical, "Who is so capable?"
"I only know that everyone calls him Boss Wu. I've never met this person."
Yu Xiangyang immediately became alert.
They had been secretly investigating Wu Xiaomin for almost half a year and knew that the brother and sister had three coal mines in Jincheng.
Wang Jingui said, "Their spies are everywhere down the mountain. If you send me down, you'll be walking into a tiger's mouth. I want to follow you and return to Beijing with you."
Yu Xiangyang didn't say anything, he was thinking.
When they entered the mountain yesterday, they disguised themselves as tomb robbers. Since there are spies at the foot of the mountain, how can they get Wang Jingui out of the mountain?
Naturally, Yu Xiangyang could not completely trust Wang Jingui. He secretly instructed the radio operator to send a message to the headquarters, reporting the matter and requesting to check Wang Jingui's identity first.
It will probably be dawn in two hours or so.
Yu Xiangyang decided to take Wang Jingui away from here first, in case those people come back again.
Another day of travel passed, and everyone went deeper into the mountains.
Wang Jingui already has 80% trust in Xiangyang and the others.
He saw that they were carrying guns, military knives, first aid kits, compasses, maps and other things, and most importantly, the radio. How could ordinary people have such things?
Within a day, the headquarters also investigated Wang Jingui's situation, which was basically consistent with what Wang Jingui said.
Wang Jingui, 38 years old, is a reporter for a Beijing newspaper. He applied to go to Jincheng for an interview and investigation eight months ago, but has not been contacted so far.
The weather is getting colder and colder. According to previous years' experience, it will probably snow in about ten days.
Yu Xiangyang and his team need to find out something within six or seven days and leave here before the mountain is blocked by heavy snow.
Yu Xiangyang said to Wang Jingui, "We're going to stay in the mountains for a few days. We can take you with us. Don't worry about what we're going to do. Just follow us. Don't tell anyone what you see or hear."
Yu Xiangyang and his team had to scout the surrounding situation as they walked, so they didn't walk very fast.
It was not until the third day after entering the mountains that Yu Xiangyang and his team made the discovery.
Most people couldn't notice it at all, but Yu Xiangyang and his team were very experienced. He first discovered that the fallen leaves on the ground had traces of being stepped on.
Looking closely, they should be human footprints.
In this kind of place, you can't even see a ghost, let alone a person.
Yu Xiangyang and his team dug through the fallen leaves around them and found several different patches of soil.
Looking more closely, there are several holes in the ground, only about two centimeters in diameter, and the soil seals the hole entrances.
Yu Xiangyang said: "The soil looks very fresh, it must have been there in the past two days."
There is no need to say what comes next, comrades all know it.
Wang Jingui guessed something, "Was this shoveled out from Luoyang?"
Yu Xiangyang replied: "Don't meddle in things that are not your business."
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